On Dienstag 25 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/25/2009 02:33 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Montag 24 August 2009, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > >> szal...@szalkai.net schrieb: > >>> Now that this exciting little flamewar has finished, and everybody is > >>> friends again :), could you Duncan please give some examples of major > >>> breakage in KDE4? > >> > >> I'm not Duncan but I have 5 reasons not to switch to kde4 atm. > >> > >> 1) Speed: I have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ with > >> 8GB of ram and a Radeon HD 3600 card but still kde 4.3 most of the time > >> feels like walking through mud. > > > > turn of composite or install a xorg-server with the > > fedora_dont_backfill_bg_none.patch and see kde fly. > > ...and see it produce a crapload of artifacts during window and menu > opening. Still better than a slow as molasses GUI though. > > In any event though, that's hardly KDE's fault anyway. It's the crappy > Catalyst drivers from AMD (I suffer the same issues).
or from a bad decision by the xorg devs to punish everybody for crappy intel hardware. Also the artifacts don't happen everytime. In fact, I only see them occasionally.
